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fumanstan 06-18-03 02:08 PM


Originally posted by Matt Millheiser
FOR THE RECORD: SUPERMAN DID NOT CHANGE THE ROTATION OF THE EARTH!!!

The "changed rotation" was a visual representation of time going backwards, nothing more.

It still *looked* a little silly, but the Earth was rotating backwards because Superman was travelling backwards in time, not vice versa.


It's just as feasible that Spider-Man could run out of organic webbing as well. I can't pee continuously at will -- eventually I'd run out. Couldn't the same be true with Spider-Man and his spoogy goo?

Wouldn't he see another Superman if he went back in time? There are various explanations for what that mumbo jumbo was so i dunno. Either way its ridiculous.

Red Dog 06-18-03 02:11 PM

Another vote for Spidey's organic webshooters.

DonnachaOne 06-18-03 02:20 PM

Why would the Joker be dead?

C'mon guys, you read comics. Characters have survived much worse than falling off buildings...

Put him in Arkham, he'll be catatonic for ten years and then he'll come out in time for The Dark Knight Returns movie. ;)

Hokeyboy 06-18-03 03:29 PM


Wouldn't he see another Superman if he went back in time?
Most likely. Doesn't change anything though. Besides, as he arrived back in time (a few minutes? hours? whatever), the Superman of that time period was off doing other things (damming the floods, fixing the San Andreas fault, etc..)

And you have to love that look of anguish and determination on Supes face as he travels through the timestream, especially in light of Jor-El's edict that he "must not interfere with human history." (repeated in a voice-over)

lesterlong 06-18-03 03:51 PM

Daredevil: Killing :hscratch:

Michael Keaton was best as Batman and better then a lot of actors would be, except maybe Christian Bale.

slop101 06-18-03 04:07 PM

The worst comic book change has to be:

Daredevil: murderer

milo bloom 06-18-03 04:32 PM

I agree Michael Keaton really had the angst down. Kilmer and Clooney may have had the body, but they didn't have the soul.

Peep 06-18-03 06:19 PM

Totally rewriting the Hulk's origin. For the worse.

mwj 06-18-03 07:35 PM

Daredevil: African American Kingpin
X-Men: Botched Accents (Storm, Colossus)

These are both bad.

calhoun07 06-18-03 08:40 PM

I also don't have any problem with these. How about BAD comic book movies? Or bad superhero TV shows? The changes in the Spider Man TV series bothered me a helluvalot more than anything in the movie. Then there's the Captain America movie. For all the crap given to comic book fans in the form of movies, and these are the worst things you could think of?

Oh, and for my input on the organic webshooters....I had to wonder seriously why Stan Lee never thought of that back in the 60's. He is supposed to have the powers of a SPIDER, so that should include shooting organic webs. Of course, if he had the true powers of a spider, he'd shoot them out of his ass, but that's another movie all together.

harosa 06-18-03 09:40 PM

One of the biggest changes in comic translations has to be the changing of origins to try and tie hero and villain together. Examples are having the Joker kill Batman's parents, same as having Kingpin kill Daredevil's father.

Withnail 06-19-03 06:47 AM

The memory wiping kiss in Superman II annoyed the hell out of me.

Ginwen 06-19-03 10:14 AM

I got used to it, but I don't really like the organic web shooters.

The other ones don't really bother me (especially the DC stuff, because I was always a Marvel guy).

Michael Corvin 06-19-03 03:43 PM

None bother me. They are minor.

I think if they did a batman film about(knightfall was it?) when Bruce was out and recruiting/training Azrael, Kurt Russel would make a good older Batman/Wayne.
He does angst well. We would have to lose the mullet though. ;)

Rypro 525 06-19-03 03:45 PM

didn't batman change two face from being black to white (or the other way around)

Morf 06-19-03 04:05 PM


Originally posted by Rypro 525
didn't batman change two face from being black to white (or the other way around)
Batman didn't do it, the casting director did.

Peep 06-20-03 01:54 PM


Originally posted by Rypro 525
didn't batman change two face from being black to white (or the other way around)
Almost. In one of the movies, Harvey Dent (who in the comic would go on to become Two-Face) was played by a black guy. In the movie wehere Two-Face actually appears, he was played by a white guy.

As for the Kingpin being played by a black guy... I thought that the portrayal of the Kingpin was spot-on. I would have been much more upset if they picked a white guy but had him acting differently than the Kingpin normally would.

MrN 06-20-03 02:57 PM

Daredevil killing the guy wasn't a minor change - it completely changed the character.

I didn't mind Kingpin being Black - I can't believe people voted for that.

caligulathegod 06-20-03 09:46 PM

In a comic book you have YEARS and MANY issues to create a character. A movie only has two hours. Sometimes you have to simplify or combine things to keep the spirit. The Batman/Joker, Kingpin/Daredevil, Spider-man/Green Goblin, etc., is just a way of simplifying 40-60 years of continuity. Even stories based on real life combines characters. For example, The People Vs Larry Flynt, they combined all his lawyers over the years into one character. It is an excepted way of adapting material from one medium to another (time constrained) medium.


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